Gemma Files
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Pitch (1997)
3/5
“A non-fiction first feature that pits two homegrown obsessives against the Hollywood elite.” –
eye WEEKLY
May 8, 2013
Full Review
The Exorcist (1973)
78%
4/5
“A story whose archetypal pull and sheer visceral power can't be negated by even the worst audience behaviour.” –
eye WEEKLY
Sep 21, 2007
Full Review
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
67%
3/5
“It's a surreal paradise where the summer sun never sets and the air is full of feathers drifting down from the Glahn family ostrich farm.” –
eye WEEKLY
May 7, 2002
Full Review
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
20%
“A visually spectacular yet oddly cheerless experience.” –
Film.com
Jun 14, 2001
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Adventures of Felix (2001)
68%
“A remarkably charming, laid-back, well-adjusted guy to find at the heart of any 21st-century comedy.” –
eye WEEKLY
Jun 6, 2001
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Ginger Snaps (2000)
90%
4/5
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eye WEEKLY
Jun 4, 2001
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A Knight's Tale (2001)
59%
“Will A Knight's Tale have a long shelf-life? Hell, no. But will it do for this Friday, preferably with a date? Hell, yes.” –
Film.com
May 10, 2001
Full Review
The Forsaken (2001)
7%
“Scary and sexy.” –
Film.com
Apr 27, 2001
Full Review
One Night at McCool's (2001)
34%
“Hinges on a haphazard intersection between several venal, infinitely and annoyingly flawed characters.” –
Film.com
Apr 26, 2001
Full Review
Kingdom Come (2001)
26%
“The comedy sequences are routinely played for the very broadest sort of slapstick, which makes its abrupt attempts to switch gears back into genuine dramatic emotion-mode all the more impossible to sustain.” –
eye WEEKLY
Apr 12, 2001
Full Review
Beautiful Creatures (2000)
38%
“As the movie limps on, it becomes painfully obvious that both these 'creatures' ... will always remain victims at best, stooges at worst.” –
Film.com
Apr 5, 2001
Full Review
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
54%
“The new year's single most satisfying movie experience thus far.” –
Film.com
Mar 15, 2001
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
82%
4/5
“By turns hilarious and hypnotic.” –
eye WEEKLY
Feb 7, 2001
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Chocolat (2000)
63%
3/5
“Feels good going down, but for such a sweet movie, the aftertaste is oddly bitter.” –
eye WEEKLY
Feb 7, 2001
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
98%
5/5
“A truly stunning blend of classic Chinese martial-arts moviemaking and modern psychodrama.” –
eye WEEKLY
Feb 7, 2001
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Valentine (2001)
11%
“Simply mines the same tired, predictable slasher-movie vein.” –
Film.com
Feb 2, 2001
Full Review
Sugar & Spice (2001)
30%
“[A] deliberately shallow, plasticized yuck-fest.” –
Film.com
Jan 25, 2001
Full Review
Save the Last Dance (2001)
54%
“Breaks virtually no new narrative ground, yet treads the familiar territory it does cover with grace, style, wit and fun.” –
Film.com
Jan 11, 2001
Full Review
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000)
19%
“Dracula 2000 is nothing more or less than pure popcorn filmmaking, with an emphasis on the 'corn', and...apparently... proud of it.” –
Film.com
Dec 22, 2000
Full Review
Proof of Life (2000)
39%
“This is half a good movie held hostage to the other, trashier half, and unfortunately for all of us, no rescue seems forthcoming.” –
Film.com
Dec 7, 2000
Full Review
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
98%
“A waking dream of truly operatic dimensions.” –
Film.com
Dec 7, 2000
Full Review
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
9%
“Better luck next turn.” –
eye WEEKLY
Dec 7, 2000
Full Review
Simpatico (1999)
25%
“Suspend my disbelief? I couldn't even lift it!” –
eye WEEKLY
Jan 1, 2000
Full Review
Quills (2000)
75%
“A pose-y, pungent, ultra-theatrical yet weirdly seductive mess.” –
Film.com
Jan 1, 2000
Full Review
Frequency (2000)
70%
“Good casting only takes us so far, and Frequency -- fun as it remains -- really doesn't have the chops to go the rest of the distance.” –
Film.com
Jan 1, 2000
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